Just a quickie:
Last night at VSC 6 artists/painters/visual artists showed slides  and spoke briefly of their work. All of them were impressive and interesting and thought-provoking. I loved hearing about process and goals and intents, and seeing the varied forms of art– whether paint, wood, computer-generated, poured, poked.
One really moved me: Matt McConville and his [...]

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Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight.
It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency?
So, the [...]

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The next book on my queue is Sunnyside by Glen David Gold. I’m going to read it while I’m at my residency in Vermont for the month of January. It’s sitting on my nightstand now and I’m just itching to get to it!
“[The] author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us [...]

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This just in from my Merriam-Webster Daily (emailed) Dictionary:

Merriam-Webster’s
Word of the Day

May 28

eclogue

\ECK-log\

noun

Meaning

: a poem in which shepherds converse

Example Sentence

“Be it in the appropriation of the goatherd or shepherd in the pastoral eclogue, or the neatly controlled terraces of the Georgics, the pastoral has always been an idyllicised representation of [...]

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I’m trying to get caught up on my New Yorkers. Did you read the profile of Ian McEwan from the Feb. 23 issue (which, by the way, had that hilarous and grotesque cover with A Rod)?

Daniel Zalewski’s profile of the Atonement author (read it here) is so compelling, so readable, and SO long. I almost [...]

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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.—Sandra Cisneros

I’ve been struggling with my book lately– the terror of failure, maybe. But also just the worry that it’s more than I can handle (the book is based on true events; i’m recreating actual incidents).

I look to books like The Danish [...]

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I’m obsessed with that NPR show “A Way With Words“– hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.
It’s a radio show where they try to figure out strange words, slang, old adages, out-dated phrases and pretty much any words that stump people. They try to find out and explain the history of such words. I really [...]

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 I haven’t been posting lately, sorry.
I just finished my teaching semester last week and this week I started teaching summer school, so I had about, umm, three days off in between. They call that a weekend.
On top of that i’ve got a cold, that feels to me like bronchitis, and I even lost my [...]

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I sent in two different photos of me to see which Celebs I resemble most.
These are the results:

Wayne Knight and I do sort of have the same smile.

I have a little bit of a cleft chin, so I sort of understand the Kirk Douglas… but why is there a 66% connection with Sarah Michelle Gellar?
Any [...]

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Last night, at the community college where I teach Ted and I gave a presentation titled That’s So Gay! for our annual Literary Arts Festival. It was the kickoff event, a reading/interrogation by several of the professors of the school. Our theme for the Lit. Arts Festival this year is The Writer As Activist and [...]

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